Transition Survival 103: Must-Have Social Skills for Adolescents/Adults - Part 1
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For teaching the everyday conversations involved in school, work, and community life, Michele LaMarche and Christine Austin's recorded Part 1 examines social communication for adolescents and adults with autism. They connect assessment and teaching methods with concrete skills such as greetings, asking for help, joining conversations, and responding to suggestions.
Presenter biographies: Michele LaMarche, Christine Austin.
The presenters compare structured teaching with natural environment and incidental teaching, then discuss picture stories, social stories, and structured learning. They examine instruction, modeling, roleplay, feedback, reinforcement, and practice beyond the teaching session.
The skill catalog moves from facial expression, voice, and timing to greetings, introductions, conversation turns, and asking for help. The closing discussion brings conversation skills together through TGIF: Timing, Greeting, Initial questions, and Follow-up questions.
What does this recording cover?
- The presenters compare discrete trial teaching, natural environment teaching, and incidental teaching for social communication.
- Structured learning combines instruction, modeling, roleplay, feedback, and practice across environments.
- The skill catalog examines conversation openings and endings, turn taking, introductions, and asking for help.
- The closing discussion introduces TGIF: Timing, Greeting, Initial questions, and Follow-up questions.
Recording context: Recorded June 21, 2012, this foundational session uses older diagnostic terminology and social rules, including eye-contact targets.
Three selected learner comments
The six-item evaluation mean was 4.28/5 across 37 complete responses, from 267 recorded rating responses. This mean includes only complete six-score responses. Source: Special Learning's course evaluation records, snapshot October 11, 2026.
Three selected anonymous responses appear below, with the wording and spelling retained. They describe learners' experiences and requests; they are not a guarantee of results or a claim that these comments represent every learner.
loved it! I am happy to find content that relates to adults with DD, ASD, FASD.
Course evaluation response, 2023
The questions felt beneficial, not as if you were trying to trick me.
Course evaluation response, 2023
Update content - I wasn't aware how dated some of this content was when purchasing this product. This is a disappointment and I will not recommend it to peers, or I will warn them to look at date of recording before purchasing this content
Course evaluation response, 2023
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Meet the Presenters
Clinic Director at Step By Step Academy, a position she has held since 2009, where she previously served as Training and Behavior Plan Supervisor,Outreach and Training Coordinator, Program Supervisor/Outreach Support Technician and Behavior Technician.
Christine regularly publishes and presents at professional conferences on the topic of autism and behavioral support. Her areas of expertise include ABA, training, individual education plans (IEPs), treatment planning and behavior modification and behavior management. She has a BA in Psychology and minor in Sociology from Ohio State University. Now a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Christine trained in Applied Behavior Analysis with the University of North Texas and is certified in Crisis Prevention.
Michele LaMarche is the co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a centre-based non-profit autism treatment centre in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. LaMarche has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for more than fifteen years, and she develops the ABA curricula used in SBSA's programs.
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